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  2. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    Animals mainly have bilateral or mirror symmetry, as do the leaves of plants and some flowers such as orchids. [30] Plants often have radial or rotational symmetry, as do many flowers and some groups of animals such as sea anemones. Fivefold symmetry is found in the echinoderms, the group that includes starfish, sea urchins, and sea lilies. [31]

  3. Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Wikipedia

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    Released: May 1980. "Kill the Poor". Released: October 1980. Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys. It was first released on September 2, 1980, through Cherry Red Records in the United Kingdom, and I.R.S. Records in the United States. It was later issued by Jello Biafra 's own ...

  4. Terrain cartography - Wikipedia

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    Terrain cartography or relief mapping is the depiction of the shape of the surface of the Earth on a map, using one or more of several techniques that have been developed. Terrain or relief is an essential aspect of physical geography, and as such its portrayal presents a central problem in cartographic design, and more recently geographic ...

  5. Glossary of plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Wing (plant)– any flat surfaced structure emerging from the side or summit of an organ; seeds, stems. Plant habit. [edit] Plant habitrefers to the overall shape of a plant, and it describes a number of components such as stem length and development, branching pattern, and texture.

  6. Parents of rare identical quads share their first photoshoot

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    According to Dr. Nathan Sundgren, associate medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who treated the babies, the sisters are now all between 6.5 to 7 pounds, and "doing great."

  7. Multiview orthographic projection - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In technical drawing and computer graphics, a multiview projection is a technique of illustration by which a standardized series of orthographic two-dimensional pictures are constructed to represent the form of a three-dimensional object. Up to six pictures of an object are produced (called primary views ), with each projection plane ...

  8. Floral symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Floral symmetry. [Left] Normal Streptocarpus flower ( zygomorphic or mirror-symmetric), and [right] peloric (radially symmetric) flower on the same plant. Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts. Uncommonly, flowers may have no axis of ...

  9. Gravitropism - Wikipedia

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    Gravitropism (also known as geotropism) is a coordinated process of differential growth by a plant in response to gravity pulling on it. It also occurs in fungi. Gravity can be either "artificial gravity" or natural gravity. It is a general feature of all higher and many lower plants as well as other organisms.